William S. (Bill) Bates

Executive Consultant, Trainer, Speaker

Bill Bates is currently an executive associate at Building Blocks Technologies, Inc. and as such, leads the Centre for Project Governance. He is the retired President of Bates Project Management Inc., a private company with a business history of 34 years, specializing in project management services. He has been the founder and president of a series of project management consulting firms from Multinational Management Systems, Ltd. of Springfield, Virginia to Projetronics Inc. of Ottawa and was also vice president, information systems of an electronic engineering/manufacturing company. Bill is also a retired officer of the United States Marine Corps. He has over 55 years of leadership and management experience.

He has more than 37 years of experience applying the project management process across various types of projects in the private, public and nonprofit sectors. In addition to authoring and designing several project management methodologies and software systems, Bill has developed project management training programs and delivered over 800 seminars internationally. His portfolio of project management achievements includes successes in the areas of engineering, social services, aerospace, information technology, facilities and accommodations, information systems, manufacturing, government, oil and gas, mining, construction and many more.

He holds his B.S. from the University of Maryland and M.A. in the Technology of Management from the American University.

He is active in professional organizations, and is past Chairman of the Board of Watercan, a non-governmental organization dedicated to providing aid to developing peoples. Currently, he is a Chairman of the Board of Governors of Robert Land Academy, a private school in Ontario and has served on the Board of Directors of the Ottawa Valley PMI Chapter. Bill has served as a member of the Project Management Council of the Conference Board of Canada and frequently delivers presentations for local PMI Chapters, Project World conferences. He has served on the Research Advisory Committee of the Project Management Institute (PMI). He has authored articles in such publications as Datamation, Computing Canada and The Government Computer Magazine.

Educational positions held by Bill include Chairman of the Data Processing Department of Strayer College; Academic Head of the U.S. Marine Corps Computer Sciences School and Lecturer in the College of Continuing Education of the American University and the Executive MBA program of the University of New Haven. He has taught with the Masters Certificate in Project Management for York University, Memorial University and St. Mary’s University.

Bill is widowed with 5 children, 9 grandchildren and a great granddaughter. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario.